Those of us few who are asking questions here...are we grasping for straws? What do we want?

  A bale of hay?  Hey, wait . . .

  Click onto the “Home Page” and they’ll blort out at you in vomit-like fashion. They don’t come from Sharonna, she has been gone for a while, but even on her best days, she alone did not corner that market.


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  Admittedly, more than 75% of the questions that I personally post are on the silly, inane, superficial, dumb, sophomoric, immature, salacious, lower-common-denominator sides of the street, so I acknowledge that before giving my answer to your question.  AnswerMug serves my purposes to the degree that I’m not seeking in-depth interaction in the first place. I’m here primarily to pass time and I do so through joking around. The remaining 25% (or less fewer) of my questions do call for that deep thinking of which you mention, and I either shoot myself in the foot by being seen as the guy who’s always clowning around and therefore people are thrown off when I get serious, or the mental base doesn’t exist in the first place for that interchange of ideas and ideals.
  It’s almost like the chicken and the egg, which came first?  The members here who have a much different ratio of serious-to-silly than I do, such as 99%/1% respectively, may experience the same frustration you do, and I can truly commiserate. I possess the intelligence to engage on a higher level than I usually do, I merely choose not to.  Part of that is representative of my true personality and the way I carry myself offline as well: I’m just not serious all the time. Another aspect of why I personally do not engage more with the serious side is that I can only respond to those topics about which I have some knowledge, expertise, empathy and/or experiences. One other thing is that certain subjects turn into fights or arguments, not to say that I shy from either, because I do not, it just gets unnecessarily out of hand at times. Finally, the last reason is that the limitations of typing out each word can be tedious and time-consuming, especially when going into intricate detail about something. I most often use the smartphone when on this website (as I happen to be using at this moment), and it’s not really conducive to the diatribes I might offer if I choose a more adequate platform from which to communicate. Imagine that, streamlined technology that offers ease and speed is less appropriate for important exchange of ideas, lol.
  Now I’ll circle around to the first part of your comment, with an apology for not discussing it in that order. I agree with you wholeheartedly that it is galling to take the time to post something of intellect and value only to have it completely ignored by the masses. (Truth be told, the same gall exists when my silly ones go ignored, but I digress.). It’s difficult to be the only adult in a room full of pre-schoolers [ironically, that was said by the chief pre-schooler, I know, I know].  The volley and serve should be continuous to the point that both sides of the net are left sweating and a little sore afterwards, but happily so.  That’s what is supposed to happen figuratively when we exercise our minds, right?

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  Thanks! (WHEW!)

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I just found one. I have edited it. 

  My strong and deeply-rooted work ethic prevented me from logging onto the internet for any wasteful purpose such as that offered by Q&A websites; no one in management nor among my peers would have ever encountered me doing that.

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